Knee for boats or other vessels



(No Model.)

. H. H. BUCK.

KNEE FOB BOATS OR OTHER VESSELS.

No. 362,487. v Patented May 10, 1887;

f flf// UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. HARRY HILL BUCK, OF ORLAND, MAINE.

KNEE FOR BOATS QROTHER VESSELS.

@PECIEICATION forming part. of Letters l atent No. 362,487, dated May10, 1887.

Application filed February 21, 1887.

To all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY HILL BUoK, of Orland, in the county ofHancock, of the State of Maine, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Knees for Boats or other Navigable Vessels, &c.; and I dohereby declare the same to be described in the following specificationand represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figure l'is aside view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of a knee of my invention,the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

It is composed of two pieces, A and B, of wood, bent, formed, andarranged as shown in the drawings, and connected together by screws orother means. The longer piece is bent at its middle at an obtuse angle,and is recessed to receive the shorter piece, which is arched, andthicker, as shown, at the crown of the arch than at the extremities, itsends abutting against shonldersa a,formed in the longer piece. Bothpieces are secured together. by screws 1), goi ng through the shorterand screwed into thelonger of them; or they may be connectedobywater-proof glue or other means suitably applied to them. The shouldersin the longer piece operate to prevent the pieces from sliding on oneanother when strain is 0 brought on thelonger of them, tending to bendSerial No. 228,328. (No model.)

or contract it. Each piece, before being applied to the other, is to besteamed and bent into shape, and has the grain of the wood of which itis composed running longitudinally throughout it.

I do not claim a knee made as shown in the United States Patent No.200,632, in which the knee is represented without any recess or notch inits outer or bent part or any arched or shorter piece inserted withinsuch recess and butting against the ends thereof and connected to thelonger or recessed part by screws, as is the case in my improved kneefor navigable vessels. Nor do I claim any construction shown in theUnited States Patent No. 27,298, in which no knee or any equivalenttherefor is shown as made like my said improved knee.

I claim- As an improved manufacture, the knee,substantially asdescribed, composed of the bent and recessed longer piece and the archedor shorter piece, wider at its middle than at its ends, and arrangedwithin and applied to the longer piece and its shoulders, essentially asset forth.

HARRY HILL BUCK.

